Couple of Wood-Fired Pizza Oven Hearth Construction Tips Via YouTube - May 2024
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Last week, I posted my latest update on our backyard pizza oven build where I mortared in the first course of the cinderblock stand . I'm on my way this week to swap out some of the blocks and to pick up the rest of the angle iron so I can drystack the rest of the stand. At risk of getting things out of order, I'm going to talk a little bit about the suspended hearth. That hearth sits ON TOP of the stand. It is reinforced concrete that is framed up with a 2x6. That means - at the VERY MOST, the hearth is 5.5" thick. But, because you overlap the forms with the block stand, you lose about an inch - so it becomes something like 4.5" thick. I'm thinking about the hearth and the materials required as I run to the hardware store and I found a bunch tips that I'm going to use in my hearth build via the Blood Sweat and Beers YouTube channel - this video where he walks through his reinforced hearth forms and setup . I thought it was worth documenting here